Big smiles

These three cuties sure knew how to work the camera, especially the youngest, baby Sophia! I took these photos on the practice football field of Jordan Matthew's High School in Siler City where I was once a student, many years ago. It was nice to revisit the location. I don't think anything has changed

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Baby Ema

It is always such an honor to create the first portraits for proud mommies and daddies of brand new little ones. Here we have sweet little Ema who was only 5 days old in these portraits! I loved watching her interact with her mommy, such a sweet baby!

An afternoon with Haven

A few weekends ago I had the pleasure of photographing Haven, a soon to be Junior at Jordan Matthew's High school in Siler City, NC.  Haven was slightly apprehensive as we began the session but within a few minutes she warmed up and I was able to create some beautiful portraits of her.

Slow shuttered memories

Back when I was at DINFOS (military photo school) the instructors drilled one thing (among many others) into our heads: "photography is subjective". I loved that, as an artist I loved being able to throw that word out there. Subjective was my license to shoot my way and claim "subjective" if my boss didn't like it. But I never really had that problem, people loved my work. I shot that way for a few years but when I got out of the Air Force, I did a brain dump got a non-photo job and fell into a rut. I forgot about my favorite word and started listening to people who were not photographers.

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